Alexa Gilweit

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Alexa Gilweit lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her formal education began at the Gerrit Reitveld Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2003.

She transferred to Glasgow School of Art in Scotland where she received her BA-Hons in painting and printmaking in 2008.

Gilweit has had numerous shows in Los Angeles including a solo exhibition at AM gallery which was artillery magazine’s pick of the week. Her most recent show was at the Eastern Star Gallery in Los Angeles in 2020.

Alexa Gilweit is interested in the blurred boundaries between cultural memory and history, and how they relate to the American subconscious. The paintings in this series are based on collages she’s made using images from life magazines, better homes and gardens magazines, and farm journals from the 1950s to the 1970s. By exhuming these cultural and commercial images and removing them from their context, her work explores the true sinews of The American Dream. The juxtaposition of real images (The Vietnam War), staged images (The American Household), and propaganda images shine a light into the depth of American collective memory and question the relationship between empirical fact and cultural amnesia.

By transposing these collages into larger scale paintings the many parts become whole, creating their own reality, alienated from the intent of the original images and imbued with the implicit questions:

“What is the substance of American collective memory?” and “How does the past affect our present condition?

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